Te Reo on the web

I do find it sad that we are not taught Māori in schools in New Zealand. I think we are very lucky to have two languages but the reality is that most people simply have little or no grasp of the our indigenous language.

Perhaps this changing as people become more aware. Even Google now has a Māori version which is pretty cool. I'd be curious to know how much use it gets.

Te Reo Māori distinguishes between long and short vowels. It is common to see the long vowels marked with an umlaut (which is simply wrong). The correct way is to use a macron. This can be tricky as macrons are not available in ASCII or extended ASCII. They do appear in unicode, however, so it's not so difficult to use them correctly on the web.

Here's a list of the unicode equivalents for lower and uppercase vowels: